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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 09, 1930
Page
5
A garbled account describes ancient Ur walls and Mesopotamian ruins. It mentions a wall twenty feet high and ninety feet long, ties to Ur, and references to explorers Woolley and others. The text blends antiquity notes with fragments of expedition chatter and prehistoric landmarks.
A century old account recalls pilots meeting large bird formations near the Alps and at Le Bourget. Eagles and other birds reportedly struck aircrafts while others swerved to avoid, and crews described birds holding tight to machines in dense formations.
The fragment describes the appearance of lights in the sky, detailing arches of light, rays forming a crown, and columns of fire as observers in a historic account witness auroral displays across the northern sky. It notes the dynamic movement of light toward the east and west and references the awe inspired by these celestial phenomena.
The article describes auroral phenomena tied to electrical disturbances in the upper atmosphere. It notes the Aurora Australis and details magnetic deviations observed during events, discussing spectra and the geophysical context. It then shifts to a lengthy, dated antiquated racial taxonomy section, detailing phenotypic traits of Caucasian, Mongolian, Malay, and American groups, with descriptions of skin color, facial features, hair, body build, and geographic distribution.
A discussion sparked by a New York World Telegram item questions whether any man is worth a million dollars a year at the head of a major company. Editors from The Literary Digest and other papers weigh executive pay, with opinions from Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel and Owen Young among others. Some argue such salaries reflect public trust in big industry, while others call them excessive and unthinkable.
The text discusses Mat as a flexible creature adapting to diverse climates from tropical Senegal to Arctic North America and Arctic Asia. It notes frost as a major eroding force shaping land, expanding water upon freezing and prying joints in rocks, causing seismic-like breakage and rock fragmentation across temperate to arctic regions.
Fragmentary text discusses how water in rock pores freezes and expands, causing fracturing. It warns that disintegrated rock loses strength, becoming loose and undermined. Mentions frost action, porous minerals, and protective measures in severe climates.
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